John David Morant was 41 when he was shot in the back while visiting friends and relatives in his former hometown of Saint Stephen, South Carolina, on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. He was taken to Roper Berkeley Medical Center in Moncks Corner but was pronounced dead en route. Known as John D, he worked in construction and as a long-distance truck driver before becoming a barber in his brother’s shop in Brooklyn.

Friends remembered him as kind, talkative and willing to help others; a past incident in Bedford-Stuyvesant where he applied pressure to a shooting victim’s wound was cited as an example of that willingness. The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office investigated the homicide and arrested three men in connection with the shooting as the inquiry continued.

Does anyone have information about John D’s time in Saint Stephen or the circumstances around the June 11, 2014 shooting?